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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Eric Hoffman and Jaydee Hanson, Biopolitical Times guest contributors | 04.07.2011

A three-judge federal appeals court heard arguments on Monday in a case that could decide the future of human gene...

By The Connexion, The Connexion | 04.07.2011

Top appeal court the Cour de Cassation has decided that a French couple’s twins born in America to a surrogate...

By Kim Tae-Jong, The Korea Times | 04.06.2011
Labor unions denounce the prosecution’s move to collect DNA samples of unionists found guilty of violence during strikes.

The criticism...
By James Meikle, The Guardian (UK) | 04.06.2011
Government advisers have endorsed the idea of a national pre-pregnancy screening programme for couples who want to know whether they...
By Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune | 04.05.2011
An attorney for the U.S. government has asked a trio of appellate judges to imagine a magic microscope that would...
By Tessa Muggeridge, The Tucson Sentinel | 03.31.2011
Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill that makes Arizona the first state to ban abortions based on...
By Diksha Sahni, The Wall Street Journal Blog | 03.31.2011
India’s early numbers for census 2011 released Thursday put the attention back on the India’s increasing population numbers and put...
By Jennifer Ludden and Marisa Penaloza, NPR | 03.30.2011
Twins, once a rarity to marvel over, are now a common part of American culture, thanks in large part to...